Loom-temple.



' PATENTED JUNE 2, 1908. J. V. CUNNIFF & J. AINSWORTH.

LOOM TEMPLE. APPLICATION FILED 0017,1907.

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JOHN V. CUNNIFF AND JAMES AINSWORTH, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO BRAPER COMPANY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

LOOM-TEMPLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented June 2, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN V. OUNNIFF and JAMES 'AINswoRTH, citizens of the United States, and residents of Fall River,

county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Loom- Temples, of which the following description, 'in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specificatiomlike letters on thedrawing representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel loom-temple, so constructed and arranged that the rolls for engaging the body of the cloth present a yielding or elastic surface, which will firmly grip and hold the cloth stretched yet without marring or injuring it'.

The novel features of our invention will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure 1 is a face view of a 'loom-tem le embodying our invention; Fig. 2 is a eft hand side elevation of the temple head and a part of the shank; Fig. 3 is a partial longitudinal section on the line 33, Fig. 2, to. show more clearly the construction .and arrangement of the rolls; Fig. 4 is a face view, partly broken out, of a modification to be described.

Referring to the drawings, the temple head, comprising a pod B having a shank B and heel B and the cap O connected with the pod by a screw 0 may be of substan. tlally usual construction, the ends of the ca having opposite screw-studs c, don-whic the upperroll ismounted We provide yieldin or;elastic rolls to engage the body of the 0 0th, the surface of the 40 rol s being ribbed to afiord a firm hold upon the cloth to maintain it stretched laterally, without marrin or injuring it.

Referring to igs. 1 and 3, the body-roll mounted in the cap is shown as made "of a coil of wire (1 of circular cross-section, wound to the proper diameter, with the spirals.

touching each other, and as shown in Fig. 3 the inner end of said roll is mounted upon a cylindrical head d, of wood or metal, centrally apertured to receive the end of the stud 0, upon which said head rotates. its outer end the s )irals of the coil are wound upon a cylindrical head (1 shown as an extension of. a toothed selvage roll (1 made of wood and provided with teeth (1 and centrally apertured to loosely receive the stud c.

The selva e roll d is quite short, conipared to the body roll, its object being to engage the cloth only .at the selvage thereof, so that the teeth will not enter or injure the body of the cloth. v

It will be seen that the surface of the body roll presents a spiral rib, theribbing engaging and holding the body of the cloth, and as the greater part of the length of said roll is hollow it is ada ted to yield or present an elastic surface. T is gives a firm grip upon the cloth but without any liability to mark or injure it in the slightest, the selvage roll d and the body roll rotating in unison.

The heads d and d are forced into the ends of the coil 11 and are held therein firmly by frictional engagement, the head d having at its end a shoulder d Fi s. 1 and 3, against which abuts the end of t e coil. The lower body roll is also made as a close spiral coil e, of less diameter, as herein shown, and at its inner end it is rotatably supported by a stud b in the end of the 0d B, .see Fig. 3.

At its outer end t e wire of the spiralwcoil is flattened and wound on a smaller diameter, at e, and is rotatably mounted .On a stud b in the outer end of the pod. U on this smaller coil 6 we force a piece of rub er tubing 6 leather or other sultable yielding material, which is opposed to the toothed selvage roll (1 so that the oints of the teeth can enter the same when t ey penetrate 'the selvage.

The opposed spirals of the body rolls hip and hold the body of the cloth between them,'while. individual spirals of either roll have a slight movement transverse to their axis to accommodate inequalities ,in the thickness of the cloth, or the pressure due to oppgsed spirals of the other roll.

the modification shown in Fig. 4 we omit the toothed selvage roll, and mount the ends of the coil d on suitable heads f, f which are rotatably mounted on the bearing studs in the ends of the cap, the coil d per se being like the coil (1 and presenting a spirally-ribbed elastic and yielding surface. The lower roll in the modification is made by stretching a tube g of rubber over a series of annular collars 9 located at intervals on a body 9 rotatably mounted at its ends in the pod, giving to the lower roll a ribbed elastic or yielding surface to engage the cloth.

In Fig. 4' one end, as 9 of the body is reduced to'form a journal rotatably mounted in the inner end of the pod, and a screw stud g at the other end of the-pod is loosely inserted in an axial hole in the adjacent end of the body 9 Having fully described our invention, what We claim as new and desire to secure b Letters Patent is 1. The combination, in. a loom-temple having a roll to engage one face of the cloth,

of a cooperating roll composed of a flexible coil of wire having its spirals contacting with each other, and solid ends on which the ends of the coil are mounted,

2. In a loom-temple, a rotatably mounted, toothed selva e-roll/a connected roll for the body of the 0 0th, com osed of a flexible coil of Wire having its spira s contacting with each other, a support for and on which is mounted the inner end of the flexible roll,

and a cooperating roll for the body of the cloth.

3. In a loom-temple, a rotatable, toothed selvage roll having a cylindrical extension at its inner end, a coil of wire having its spirals names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN V. OUNNIFF. JAMES AINSWORTH. Witnesses:

S. W. AsHToN,

LAVINA ASHTON 

